Going out with my wife's friends is always fun for only the first 2 hours, then I run out of things to talk about and want to go home, but I'm trapped because she's still enjoying herself for a few more hours. 😕

The GDPR makes sense—people should be able to know how their data is being used—but it has little information about implementing it adequately, which is a big problem and puts lots of people, not just big companies, at risk for huge fines that they could never afford. It feels shitty because it's basically "You'd better not just comply but also prove you're compliant and bend to any user's whim or you're in big trouble!!!"

Christ, how long did it take to write this fucking article?? This thing is 10 miles long, and that's just for *summarizing* the document the author presumably actually had to read through entirely in order to summarize it!!!

"Unless you’re working for a legal organization you shouldn’t keep any data regarding convictions, or offenses about a person."So"If you’re one of those places doing “online criminal record checks” you should probably just shut down and open an Etsy store selling band posters."

"Humans 16+ years of age and older can give their consent"So"Add filters keeping out children and don’t track people until consent is given"But age is personal data...You have to give consent to use data, and if a kid is trying to get access to things they're not supposed to, they're not gonna consent to give their age and thus cannot be filtered?

Like, I get the idea, and it's good, but I have no idea how to implement some of these things

The swarm just split into 4 smaller swarms and latched onto some of us and my character freaked out and cast Burning Hands, killing all the mosquitos and nearly killing her party members in the process 👍

Early on, I introduced the concept of personal symbols to easily identify someone's work. I'm sure others did it before me, but on our server, I started it, and it was so cool to have started something like that! This was my symbol, the Alamantus symbol, and I integrated it into many of my builds: